Template:LawTreePositionDef

One row per law placement in a faction's law screen. Production laws (~198) each get exactly one row; test laws get none (they don't appear in any faction's fractionLawsLines).

Captures the display layout of the law tree as shown in-game: which side (Faction column / Army column), which slot within that side, and which tier row. The balance-relevant tier is duplicated here from Law.tier for convenience — LawTreePositionDef is the table to query when reconstructing the screen layout, while Law.tier is the table to query when asking "where in the balance-tree does this law live."

Page layout

LawTreePositionDef rows are emitted inline on the parent FactionDef page (no separate Data:LawTreePosition/… pages):

{{LawTreePositionDef | faction=human | tier=1 | side=faction | slot=0 | law_id=fraction_law_human_3}}
{{LawTreePositionDef | faction=human | tier=1 | side=faction | slot=1 | law_id=fraction_law_human_2}}
…

Schema

This template defines the table "LawTreePosition". View table.

{{LawTreePositionDef
| faction = String           <!-- human, demon, dungeon, nature, undead, unfrozen -->
| tier = Integer             <!-- 1-5 -->
| side = String              <!-- faction | army -->
| slot = Integer             <!-- 0-based position within (faction, tier, side) -->
| law_id = String
}}

Field notes

• Primary key is (faction, tier, side, slot), which is also unique on law_id (each law occupies exactly one tree position).
• side is derived from the source groups[] index: groups[0] → "faction", groups[1] → "army". Mirrors the in-game screen labels (left = "Faction", right = "Army").
• slot is the law's index within its groups[k].laws[] array (0-based). Laws per side range from 2 to 4.
• tier is the row index of fractionLawsLines[] (1-based on emit, 0-based in source).

Related tables

• Law — joined on law_id = Law.id (1:1 for placed laws).
• FactionLawTier — joined on (faction, tier) for the unlock threshold at this row.
• Faction — joined on faction = Faction.id.